Approaching Infinity has always been a game where you play until you die and then start a new game. OK, that's fine. But what if it wasn't?
What happens when you unlock a new ship or character class and want to start with those? Either you abandon the current game, wait it out, or go for a quick win. All fine, but what if you didn't have to?
Introducing Multiple Concurrent Games!
You can now run up to 9 individual games at once!
This does not mean you can have 9 copies of the same game saved in different slots... I'm not supporting that kind of behavior in a rogue-like at this time. (But I won't try to stop you from copying your saves in the local file system either...)
This is all happening in the Beta branch which anyone can join. Let me know if you have any problems.
I even designed the new system to incorporate your old save into the new format, so that you won't lose your current game. I really don't like breaking your saves :)
There are also some other little features and upgrades in this one, but I won't go into detail here.
What about "Hails"?
Oh, yeah, that's still a thing... talking to alien ships is pretty important in a space game!
There haven't been any big problems with the hailing feature, and there's been a lot of positive feedback on it, so you can expect that to come to the main branch this Friday!